{"id":8447,"date":"2016-09-25T20:17:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T00:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8447"},"modified":"2016-09-25T20:17:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T00:17:05","slug":"does-climate-affect-football-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/09\/does-climate-affect-football-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Does climate affect football performance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since it is the weekend in the fall, the thought of football is never far away in our house. \u00a0I thought a story this week by <em>Fox News Tech<\/em> on the advantage football teams from drier climates have was intriguing. \u00a0A study by Kansas State researchers shows that when visiting teams from moister areas play in drier regions, they have a disadvantage that can be captured in betting odds. \u00a0According to the story, if you followed those odds and bet consistently on them, over time you would get an 8 percent gain. \u00a0Check it out and see what you think at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2010\/09\/18\/drier-edge-college-football.html\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2010\/09\/18\/drier-edge-college-football.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8448\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/football-in-dry-grass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8448\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/football-in-dry-grass-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Jayel Aheram via Flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/football-in-dry-grass-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/football-in-dry-grass-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/football-in-dry-grass.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jayel Aheram via Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it is the weekend in the fall, the thought of football is never far away in our house. \u00a0I thought a story this week by Fox News Tech on the advantage football teams from drier climates have was intriguing. \u00a0A study by Kansas State researchers shows that when visiting teams from moister areas play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8449,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447\/revisions\/8449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}